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According to history, all makers dropped what they were doing to join the war time effort.

Dating epiphone basses

However, the company emerged from the war with a different face…the man whose name was on every musical instrument had died during the war.

Epi passed on June 6, 1943 at the age of 50 from leukemia; his passing changed the fate of the company and was the first blow to the decline of the Epiphone Empire…in his sister Elly’s words, “Epi was the brains”.

The database project has grown to a catalog over 280 basses or 7% of all the manufactured Epiphone and Gibson/Epiphone basses.

We have gathered this information that we will openly share, but by no means do I consider this to be the “official” history of Epiphone upright basses.

This quest was intended to be nothing more than to satisfy my curiosity…Epaminondas “Epi” Anastasios Stathopoulo was born in 1893 and died in 1943 before the end of WWII.

He inherited the family business in July of 1915 at the tender age of 22 years old when his father Anastasios died.

I found a little bit of history about Epiphone mandolins, banjo’s and guitars with only a few references about their upright basses…not enough to satisfy my curiosity.

So here is where our quest for more knowledge about Epiphone upright basses begins.

The Epiphone Company was in a great period of expansion and innovation.

The only force powerful enough to stop their progress was the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

The business was re-named again in 1928 to the Epiphone Banjo Company.